Public release of LyX version 1.3.7 =================================== We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.7.
We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth noting: - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245, the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0. - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the installer and in the handling of file names. All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of this message. In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is released under a Free Software / Open Source license. LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good. On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press. LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. You can download LyX 1.3.7 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.7.tar.bz2 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host the .bz2 versions): http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows installers) should soon be available at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.7/ If you already have the LyX 1.3.6 sources, you may want to apply one of the following patches instead ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.7.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.7.bz2 Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Win sources, since some binary files have been added for this release. If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.7, you may either e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org). Enjoy! The LyX team. What's new ========== ** Updates - Update lyx2lyx to handle properly the latest LyX 1.4 format (245). - New hungarian translation. Update Spanish translation. - Update German documentation. ** Bug fixes * Document input/output: - Don't load the wasysym package automatically anymore (bug 1942) - Fix crash with S-Home while entering a macro name (bug 2046) - Do not delete selection when entering an index entry. - Fix LaTeX output when a bibtex inset is used in a child document. - Support tex4ht for Tex -> MS Word conversion - Support the previewers kdvi, kpdf, and kghostview * User Interface: - Fix wrong path when drag-and-dropping files on Windows. [Qt only] - Fix interaction of LyX with external clipboard (e.g. Klipper) (bug 1976). - Ensure that no dialogs have one shortcut assigned to more than one action. Always connect the OK button to the Alt-O shortcut. [Qt only] - Ensure that the user cannot create a reference without first selecting one in the reference dialog. [Qt only]. - The Return key is no longer bound to the Goto button in the reference dialog. [Qt only]. - Double clicking in the reference dialog now inserts a reference (bug 2187) [Qt only]. - Searching backwards in the citation dialog always skipped one result (bug 2002). Fixed now. - Do not trim spaces from either end of the find and replace strings in the Edit->Find & Replace... dialog. [XForms only]. - Fix crash when trying to display current directory and ${HOME} is empty. - Don't force alignment to BLOCK when switching to fixed width cell (bug 1840). - Add key bindings for "primary-selection-paste". - Fix some math key sequences for sciword.bind. - On exit, don't attempt to unlock a mutex in the Qt library --- it causes undefined behaviour and leads to a crash on NetBSD. - Enable Instant Preview to work if the path to the external GhostScript executable contains spaces. (bug 2193). - The error/warning/confirmation dialogs aren't hidden behind the main window anymore [Qt only] (bug 1977). * Configuration/Installation: - Enable TeXFiles.sh to run when its path contains spaces. - Compile without STL compatibility support, since some systems do that by default (Slackware, for ex.). [Qt only] - Fix compilation with gcc 2.95 under OSX 10.4. This is useful because LyX crashes on startup when compiled with gcc3. - Fix compilation with Solaris/x86 (bug 992). - Enable compilation of LyX on DragonFly BSD. - Add missing cygwin support file in the distribution (bug 2035). - Enable Windows boxes to recognize the hard-coded paths needed to run LyX from the build tree.
